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Fire on a train - HWY - 23/10/15
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Just before midday - Mainline trains going via AYS.
Hopefully no one hurt, train evacuated safely.
Anyone able to access more details? Service? Stock number?
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Re: Fire on a train - HWY - 23/10/15
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HWY = High Wycombe
AYS = Aylesbury
Service involved was 1G25 1045 London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill. Failed at High Wycombe 1109. A fire on a Class 68 locomotive, 68015. All passengers safely evacuated at High Wycombe and transferred onto coaches to Princes Risborough for onward rail travel. Fire extinguished and a rescue loco has recovered the failed train. Normal working resumed around 1300. Some residual delays, diversions and cancellations.
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Thanks for the info.
Ok, that's my train home borked as it usually forms the 1815 to Birmingham.
Those locos are barely 6 months or so old. Hope it doesn't mean withdrawal & checking the others, so close to Sunday's start on the Oxford branch.
Quote from: bignosemac on October 23, 2015, 13:27:41
HWY = High Wycombe
AYS = Aylesbury
They're in the glossary, right?
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The vast majority of station codes are not included in the Acronyms/Abbreviations page. That's why I included the full names here. Many readers of the forum wouldn't have a clue what HWY and AYS are.
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The glossary would be flooded with over 2500 entries! ... there
are
ways and means of looking them up, but much better simply to include them at first mention in a post thread so that your readers don't have to scurry off to sort out SPP (Shippea Hill) or ABC (Altnabraec) or BGL or CAU (see - those last two set you scurrying
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Quote from: grahame on October 23, 2015, 14:14:58
The glossary would be flooded with over 2500 entries! ... there
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ways and means of looking them up, but much better simply to include them at first mention in a post thread so that your readers don't have to scurry off to sort out SPP (Shippea Hill) or ABC (Altnabraec) or BGL or CAU (see - those last two set you scurrying
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Are you blowing your own trumpet with one of those?
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More like a Cornish Cornet !.
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